$90,000 penalties for trolley collector contractors

Trolley collection contractors who were once part of
supply chains for Woolworths, Coles and Foodland have been
penalised more than $90,000 after underpaying workers.

Adelaide man Ki Bok Jin, who deliberately underpaid the
workers through his now defunct trolley collecting company South
Jin Pty Ltd, has been penalised $44,350.

In addition, Coastal Trolley Services Pty Ltd, which
sub-contracted Jin's company to provide trolley collection
services, has also been penalised $38,000 and its major shareholder
and director Edward Stroop a further $8500.

The penalties, imposed in the Federal Court, are the
result of an investigation and legal action by the Fair Work
Ombudsman.

Fair Work inspectors investigated after receiving
underpayment allegations and found workers were paid as little as
$8 an hour.

Under the Cleaning Services Award, permanent full time
employees were entitled to receive at the time more than $14 and
casual employees more than $17 for ordinary hours and more than $30
for some weekend and overtime work.

Superannuation entitlements were also
underpaid.

Justice Richard White found that Jin, through his company,
had "adopted, deliberately, a system which would result in
underpayments and sought to disguise that by producing wage records
which were not just inaccurate, but false".